Edited by Nancy K. Frankenberry and Hans H. Penner
Why do many people think religion is subjective? Or symbolic? Or non-rational? This book brings together eighteen important twentieth-century essays on these questions, by authors ranging from Ludwig Wittgenstein to Richard Rorty and Clifford Geertz. The editors show that such questions are both
quite modern and powerfully influential in our Western thinking about religious belief. Moreover, they lead directly into the three most popular theories that attempt to make sense of religion: positivism, functionalism, and relativism. Selecting essays that represent each of these three theoretical
positions, Frankenberry and Penner trace their incoherence and argue for a new method and theory for understanding religious beliefs.
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Hans Penner is at Dartmouth College.
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